Category: fineart

MOTHER EARTH BURN

Post author By jalaruart
Post date 10/10/2019
Categories In blog, exhibitions, fineart, solo

OPENING THURSDAY 24 OCTOBER 6.00-8.00PM Blak Dot Gallery |www.blakdot.com.au 33 Saxon Street BRUNSWICK 3056 Mother Earth Burns as scars tattoo across her skin, her life-giving flow dried to dust. Her tears are salty to the tongue as her voice burns red. She cries out to those who are willing to listen to her song. A collection […]

COLLECT

Post author By jalaruart
Post date 10/07/2019
Categories In exhibitions, fineart, project, solo

COLLECT the latest photo series by Michael Jalaru Torres is a journey into the dark history of collected human remains taken from Australia and held in institutions in Germany during the early 19th century, Jalaru has captured and presented these works to shed light on the past to help coincide with the repatriation of these […]

LORE

Post author By jalaruart
Post date 23/04/2019
Categories In fineart, project

A body of traditions and knowledge on a subject or held by a particular group, typically passed from person to person by word of mouth.

Beautiful Violence

Post author By jalaruart
Post date 23/04/2019
Categories In fineart, songlines

Two worlds collide when the warm sun sets into the cold dark night, the colours of the day become cools and changes to the purple haze of night, the shadows softens and the highlights subdue as change is inevitable as worlds violently merge to create a moment of peace and beauty. It is in […]

WRITING ON THE WALL

Post author By jalaruart
Post date 23/04/2019
Categories In exhibitions, fineart, group

Gujarra Ngurnu (two sisters), one of Rumarra (day) and one of Ngurra (night), mimic each other’s movements from the setting sun to the rising moon with the stars above mapping their expansive wings in the night sky that over time creates a ripple effect that changes the seasons on the land below. One cannot live […]